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Title
Plucked : [poems] / [by] Miracle Thornton.
Author
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781931307550
1931307555
1931307555
Published
Studio City, California : Rattle, 2023.
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
29 pages; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1419548742
Summary
"In her debut chapbook, Miracle Thornton offers an imaginative portrait of black girlhood. In an effort to understand how we come to know ourselves, the poems interrogate fraught intimate and communal spaces. From the pews of a Baptist church or shushing through the halls of a home in the night, Thornton's poems are sensitive to the at once suffocating and wonderful complexities of love, the body, and home. Inspired in part by the Aesop fable "A Jackdaw and Peacock Feathers," the figure of a dejected black bird haunts the page. The jackdaw acts as a mirror or a window which the speaker runs against and away from at turning points in her life. Tender and gilded, plucked thrums with a delicate force"--Publisher's website.
Formatted Contents Note
On my first day of kindergarten
Can I get a witness
The affair
Perennial room
The kitchen
Quick
Praise dance
False idols
Jackdaw
Nocturne
The cheat
Among peacocks
Prodigal
Equinox.
Can I get a witness
The affair
Perennial room
The kitchen
Quick
Praise dance
False idols
Jackdaw
Nocturne
The cheat
Among peacocks
Prodigal
Equinox.
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